A special one-day accelerated course on how to effectively manage construction contracts and projects through strategies and techniques designed to avoid claims and legal problems on the jobsite.

For the contractor, the owner, the subcontractor, the project manager, the program manager, the architect/engineer, and the lawyer.

This is a practical, participative workshop on how to avoid claims and legal problems on the jobsite through sound management and contracting strategies and techniques. It is based on the premise that the smart management of a construction project will avoid and resolve issues before they become intractable problems.

Preparation is a key to problem avoidance. This workshop is based on lessons learned and insights from a Course Director with extensive experience in construction law, litigation, contracting, and dispute resolution.

The workshop covers the full range of contract and performance issues from start to finish. It synthesizes lessons and principles learned over time. Knowing how each and every aspect of the project fits together, knowing each side's rights and options, the rules and the standards, can spell the difference between success and failure in project delivery.

And, although we do not presume to have all of the answers, we do intend to provide you with insight, guidance, and the resources to assist you in avoiding claims and legal problems on your construction projects.

Course Coverage

1. The Killer Contract Clauses: Do you want them on your job? Will they help or hurt?

2. Defects in the Work: What do you do when. . .?

3. Don't start a fight with someone who can beat you: How to deter disputes and still be a nice person.

4. Hidden Land Mines in Seemingly Innocent Paperwork: Do you know where they are?

5. Don't Lose That Positive Attitude: Procedures for maintaining a working relationship during the tough times.

6. Never Say Die: Tips for effectively negotiating the resolution of project problems.

7. But They Just Won't Be Reasonable: Alternatives to court that work—even with the hard-headed.

The Course Director

Lee C. Davis of Atlanta, Georgia, is a Partner in the firm of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, LLP, limiting his practice to construction law and the resolution of construction disputes. Mr. Davis is involved in the negotiation, mediation, arbitration and trial of construction matters for his clients throughout the nation and internationally, representing contractors, subcontractors, owners and design professionals. Mr. Davis graduated magna cum laude from Williams College, where he was selected for membership in the Phi Beta Kappa national honor society. He then attended Emory University School of Law, where he was a member of the Order of Barristers, the Moot Court Special Teams and the Moot Court Labor Law Team coach. Mr. Davis is a co-author of "Environmental Problems on the Georgia Jobsite," published by Federal Publications and of "Designbuild Strategies." He has lectured extensively on construction law throughout the United States and abroad, including lectures and seminars at Colorado State University, The American Law Center in Moscow and the Masters Institute on Construction Contracting (For Federal Publications), and has given lectures and seminars on Practical ConstructionLaw (for Federal Publications), Architect-Engineer Liability and Construction Claims. A pilot and flight instructor, Mr. Davis is a member of the Atlanta Bar Association (including the Construction Law Section), the State Bar of Georgia and the American Bar Association, including the ABA's Section on Public Contract Law and the Forum on the Construction Industry.